Parliament decides whom to cover in using the “reporting public office holder” definition or the definition of “designated public officer holder”.
The other issue that's different in both legislations is the time period for post-employment.
The third issue is the activities that are covered. The Conflict of Interest Act refers to representations. Some of these representations may be lobbying. But it may interest the committee to know that in the Conflict of Interest Act it doesn't matter whether you're paid or unpaid in that one-year or two-year period. Under the Lobbying Act, it's only considered a registerable lobbying activity, under which the five-year prohibition applies, if it's paid lobbying. Actually, where it may not be acceptable during that first year to do lobbying if it's unpaid under the Conflict of Interest Act, under the Lobbying Act that would not be something that fits the prohibition.